William "Will" Blake is the titular main antagonist of the Goosebumps book, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, a major antagonist in the 2015 film Goosebumps and a minor antagonist in its 2018 sequel Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.
He is portrayed by Michael Barry in the television series. In the film he was portrayed by the late John Bernecker, and Derek Mears, who also played Moloch in Sleepy Hollow, and voiced Ruben Lozano in Red vs. Blue and Corsac Albain in RWBY.
Biography[]
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp[]
Will Blake was a twelve-year-old boy living in Fever Swamp who, at some point prior to the events of the book, became cursed with lycanthropy. While in the form of a werewolf, Will terrorized Fever Swamp, preying on local animals. It's implied at one point that he killed a hunter he had been friends with. When the Tucker family moved into Fever Swamp, Will befriended their youngest son, Grady.
When a local girl, Cassie, claimed to Grady that a werewolf existed in Fever Swamp, Will was quick to deny its existence. After the Tucker family noticed dead animals turning up at the swamp, including several swamp deer, Grady's new pet dog Wolf was blamed for the killings, convincing Grady's father that he needed to be put down. However, Grady, unwilling to let Wolf be killed, set him free. Later on, at night, Grady ventures into the woods looking for Wolf, where he met Will. As the two boys searched for Wolf, Will transformed into a werewolf under the full moon, causing Grady to realize that he was the Werewolf of Fever Swamp. Will attacked and bit Grady, but Wolf returned and fought Will off, forcing him to flee.
Will vanished after the incident, leaving his fate uncertain though it's assumed Wolf killed him off. However, with the curse having been passed on to Grady, Grady became the new Werewolf of Fever Swamp, with Wolf as his companion.
In the episode of the TV show, not too much is changed about Will except that it's stated he killed the Swamp Hermit's wife and children at one point upon transforming. He is also shown to believe in werewolves and accuses the Hermit of being one, unlike in the book where he openly denies their existence. After transforming, he chases after Grady's sister: Emily all the way inside the house and to the barn where her and Grady's mother are in. Will tries to get to them inside but fails and later goes after Grady. He is thought to be caught by the Swamp Hermit, but it was actually a deer and Will manages to kill the Swamp Hermit and proceeds in attacking Grady.
However, an eclipse occurs and Will briefly transforms back and reveals to himself to be the werewolf in front of Grady. Though Grady wanted to help, Will told him to run before changing back. He transforms and attacks Grady but Grady's dog, Vandal, comes to the rescue who then knocks him into the quicksand and sinks as both Grady and Vandal watch. Grady couldn't help but feel sorry for Will before heading home. Later in the episode, his skeleton resurfaces. It's unknown as to whether or not he bit Grady as in the book, given Grady howls at the moon, but doesn't transform, at the end of the episode.
Goosebumps (film)[]
In the Goosebumps film, Will Blake appears in an abandoned Supermarket going through the meat aisle until Champ accidentally alerts him by opening a soda. He searches for them throughout the Supermarket, Zach tries to throw him off, but fails. The werewolf chases them out the market into a parking lot, only to be slammed by Lorraine's car and sent flying into a dumpster. He reappears with the other monsters as Slappy leads them on an attack Madison High School to kill of R.L. Stine. He corners Taylor and is about to attack her, but Champ arrives and bites him with his "silver teeth filings" making the wolf run off.
The werewolf reappears with the monsters going after a bus Stine and the kids are using to escape only for it to be a decoy rigged to explode when the werewolf and the Abominable Snowman open the doors. He regenerates and lead Slappy to the Stine. Zach managed to finish the book just as the monsters reached them, and promptly opened it, causing a vortex to suck the werewolf and all the monsters in the book.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween[]
Will returns in this movie, as Slappy uses the "Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano" spell to bring a costume of Will to life. At the end, Will is sucked into the "Haunted Halloween" book, but Slappy's survival and him having written another magical book means his fate is left ambiguous.
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Trivia[]
- It remains unknown as to what happened to Will's family, as they are never seen in the TV show or the book. Though, it is possible that he killed them once he transformed.
- Will isn't referred by his real name in any of the Goosebumps films, as R.L Stine refers to Will as "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp", the same name of his own book.
- In the Goosebumps movie, Will is seen wearing Converse shoes, a possible reference to the original series cover artist Tim Jacobus, who drew Converse shoes on some of the book covers in the series.
- In the book, Grady recognizes Will as the werewolf because the werewolf has a thick neck and broad shoulders, and Will has the same features. In the TV show, Grady recognizes Will as the werewolf after a lunar eclipse causes Will to partially revert to human form.
- The way Will scrapes his claws along the sides of the lorries in the first film could be a reference to Freddy Krueger.
External Links[]
- Will Blake on the Goosebumps Wiki
